{"id":9548,"date":"2011-03-28T12:25:58","date_gmt":"2011-03-28T17:25:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eshop.macsales.com\/blog\/?p=9548"},"modified":"2014-05-22T13:34:27","modified_gmt":"2014-05-22T18:34:27","slug":"mercury-extreme-ssd-makes-fast-new-mbp-even-faster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eshop.macsales.com\/blog\/9548-mercury-extreme-ssd-makes-fast-new-mbp-even-faster\/","title":{"rendered":"Mercury Extreme SSD makes fast new MBP even faster!"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-5274\" title=\"SSD-Race\" src=\"https:\/\/eshop.macsales.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/SSD-Race.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"335\" srcset=\"https:\/\/eshop.macsales.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/SSD-Race.png 300w, https:\/\/eshop.macsales.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/SSD-Race-107x120.png 107w, https:\/\/eshop.macsales.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/SSD-Race-284x317.png 284w, https:\/\/eshop.macsales.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/SSD-Race-170x190.png 170w, https:\/\/eshop.macsales.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/SSD-Race-107x120@2x.png 214w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>by Peter Schmalfeldt &#8211; Satisfied OWC Customer<\/h3>\n<p>I got my new 17\u201d MacBook Pro the other day,\u00a0but before it even hit my doorstep, I already had plans for some surgery. I wanted to swap out the Solid State Drive (SSD) that came with the MacBook Pro (a Toshiba drive provided by Apple) with a better performing &amp; more stable <a href=\"https:\/\/eshop.macsales.com\/shop\/internal_storage\/Mercury_Extreme_SSD_Sandforce\">OWC Mercury Extreme Pro SSD<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Before I swapped anything out, I performed some benchmarking tests and also timed how long it took to boot up the computer and get to a desktop. The second test took 33.7 seconds from the time I pressed the power button until the desktop finished loading.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s pretty fast, but I think we can do better&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>So, I took it apart to put in the new OWC SSD. I installed it using an <a href=\"https:\/\/eshop.macsales.com\/search\/Data+Doubler\">OWC Data Doubler<\/a>, which lets me put a second drive in the optical drive bay.\u00a0Then, after formatting both drives and re-installing the OS onto my new OWC drive, I turned it on. With the laptop off, pressing the power button and getting to a finished desktop took 21.8 seconds. <strong>That shaved about 12 seconds\u2014or about 35%\u2014off the old boot time!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Also, for the sake of science, I ran the <a title=\"geekbench\" href=\"http:\/\/www.primatelabs.ca\/geekbench\/\">Geekbench<\/a> testing suite before and after the install, and <a href=\"http:\/\/browse.geekbench.ca\/user\/mrmidi\/profile\">posted the results<\/a>. The first listing with 10537 is the most recent test with new drive; 10516 was the score with the original drive.<\/p>\n<p>To me, it\u2019s pretty clear that this OWC Mercury SSD <em>smokes <\/em>the Apple Toshiba SSD that ships with the MacBook Pros that have them installed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Peter Schmalfeldt &#8211; Satisfied OWC Customer I got my new 17\u201d MacBook Pro the other day,\u00a0but before it even hit my doorstep, I already had plans for some surgery. I wanted to swap out the Solid State Drive (SSD) that came with the MacBook Pro (a Toshiba drive provided by Apple) with a better [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":46,"featured_media":5274,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"spay_email":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[339,7],"class_list":["post-9548","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-product-spotlight","category-random-thoughts-and-topics"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v20.2 (Yoast SEO v20.2) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Mercury Extreme SSD makes fast new MBP even faster!<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"OWC customer Peter Schmalfeldt installed an OWC Mercury Extreme Pro SSD in his brand new MacBook and sped things up considerably.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/eshop.macsales.com\/blog\/9548-mercury-extreme-ssd-makes-fast-new-mbp-even-faster\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Mercury Extreme SSD makes fast new MBP even faster!\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"OWC customer Peter Schmalfeldt installed an OWC Mercury Extreme Pro SSD in his brand new MacBook and sped things up considerably.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/eshop.macsales.com\/blog\/9548-mercury-extreme-ssd-makes-fast-new-mbp-even-faster\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Rocket Yard\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2011-03-28T17:25:58+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2014-05-22T18:34:27+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/eshop.macsales.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/SSD-Race.png\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"300\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"335\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/png\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Rocket Yard Contributor\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Rocket Yard Contributor\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/eshop.macsales.com\/blog\/9548-mercury-extreme-ssd-makes-fast-new-mbp-even-faster\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/eshop.macsales.com\/blog\/9548-mercury-extreme-ssd-makes-fast-new-mbp-even-faster\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Rocket Yard Contributor\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/eshop.macsales.com\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/41210f6ded9a93e7b106ed9d227b8cdf\"},\"headline\":\"Mercury Extreme SSD makes fast new MBP even faster!\",\"datePublished\":\"2011-03-28T17:25:58+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2014-05-22T18:34:27+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/eshop.macsales.com\/blog\/9548-mercury-extreme-ssd-makes-fast-new-mbp-even-faster\/\"},\"wordCount\":272,\"commentCount\":26,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/eshop.macsales.com\/blog\/#organization\"},\"keywords\":[\"Apple\",\"Data Doubler\",\"Geekbench\",\"MacBook\",\"Mercury Extreme\",\"OWC\",\"Performance\",\"Speed\",\"SSD\",\"Toshiba\",\"Upgrade\"],\"articleSection\":[\"Product Spotlight\",\"Random Thoughts &amp; 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